Example sentences of "and [vb past] up [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A creature like man , completely lacking the inbred altruism seen , for instance , in the worker bee , might well rebel against the altruistic demands of his society if it were readily apparent to him that his altruism was profoundly hypocritical and made up of components of inhibited egoism , self-directed sadism ( e. g. guilt ) and de-sexualized libido ( e.g. ‘ social feeling ’ ) . |
| 2 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 3 | Then they came upon a clearing where there was a hut , made of lap-boarding with a verandah , and built up on bricks . |
| 4 | Options need to be created and opened up for women . |
| 5 | Seas receded and new land surfaces arose and joined up with others , inviting colonization of a whole ecological community . |
| 6 | Neglected children were taken away and locked up in Homes where they were made to eat worms . |
| 7 | Another observation on rose fruits , given under R. villosa , tells of its large , round hips , with a pleasant acid pulp surrounding the seeds , being ‘ made into a sweetmeat and served up in deserts to the table . ’ |
| 8 | The limestone scarps that rushed down to the sea and broke up into islands hung over the town , dripping green and yellow trees . |
| 9 | It must be stressed that the data is complex and bound up with difficulties of defining levels of disability , different kind of household and service , and dependent upon sophisticated statistical analysis . |
| 10 | I used to think , That 's a woman 's lot — forever being prodded and poked and looked up by doctors who are total strangers . |
| 11 | I got back to Ingard House a bit after four o'clock , and went up to rooms 207–8 , the offices allotted to us for the purposes of our audit . |
| 12 | One by one they jounced over the ruts , and formed up in pairs . |
| 13 | On our side the bank was slow and grassy and sloped up to trees . |
| 14 | The impact of de Gaulle 's words , which were transmitted to Algeria via Radio Monte Carlo and picked up by soldiers on their transistor radios , was again critical . |
| 15 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 16 | Some of your family had already emigrated during the last century and set up as moneylenders . |
| 17 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |